Earliest Modern Human Genomes Decoded | Sci.News

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Ancient DNA continues to provide answers to our origins. These new results have implications to GAE. The results show that all Homo Sapiens leaving Africa prior to 50,000 years ago died out without being ancestors to any present day people. The Homo Sapiens that were ancestors to us all came out of Africa after 50,000 years ago and interbreed with Neanderthals. Therefore the conjecture that a divinely created Adam and Eve (GAE) in the Middle East 6000 years ago could be in the genealogy of every human being living on the planet 2000 years ago is not supported by any ancient DNA results.

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I don’t see any real implications for GAE here. There never was any scientific evidence for a created Adam and Eve, so the lack of any evidence in these results - which wouldn’t be expected to show any such evidence - changes nothing.

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Not sure you understand how GAE works. DNA evidence can neither support nor refute GAE unless it shows a long-term genetically isolated modern population somewhere.

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I appreciate the linked article but am absolutely baffled as to how it allegedly impacts the GAE.

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I guess I don’t understand how GAE works. Why would the creator of the universe where a single species of hominin survived to dominates the planet, would have to do a sideshow in a magical garden to fit with utterances he made when he visited Earth in human form to save humanity from the mistakes made by this specially created couple?

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That article is also interesting—but how would the timing of Neanderthal gene flow into modern humans have any relation to GAE? Am I missing something here?

(Or are you somehow assuming, for example, that the GAE had to have lived in Neanderthal territory such that the GAE descendents mixed with them and not some other hominid population?)

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That’s hardly a scientific question or even one in any way impacted by any data about ancient genomes. So it isn’t clear why you would bring it up. Nor does it have anything to do with “how GAE works”. Why God would or wouldn’t do something is not relevant to GAE; it’s relevant to trying to discern God’s nature, but that’s an unrelated question. Are the implications for God’s nature what you really want to talk about? If so, all these ancient genomes are a distraction.

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